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Fangland

A Novel

By John Marks

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| Hardcover | 9781594201172

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An acclaimed novelist and former 60 Minutes producer grandly reinvents the Dracula epic in the halls of a certain television newsmagazine In the annals of business trips gone horribly wrong, Evangeline Harker's journey to Romania on behalf of her employer, the popular television newsmagazineContinue

An acclaimed novelist and former 60 Minutes producer grandly reinvents the Dracula epic in the halls of a certain television newsmagazine In the annals of business trips gone horribly wrong, Evangeline Harker's journey to Romania on behalf of her employer, the popular television newsmagazine The Hour, deserves pride of place. Sent to Transylvania to scout out a possible story on a notorious Eastern European crime boss named Ion Torgu, she has found the true nature of Torgu's activities to be far more monstrous than anything her young journalist's mind could have imagined. The fact that her employer clearly won't get the segment it was hoping for is soon the very least of her concerns. Back in New York, Evangeline's disappearance causes an uproar at the office and a wave of guilt and recrimination. Then suddenly, several months later, she's heard from: miraculously, she's convalescing in a Transylvania monastery, her memory seemingly scrubbed. But then who was sending e-mails through her account to The Hour employees? And what are those great coffin-like boxes of objects delivered to the office in her name from the Old Country? And why does the show's sound system appear to be infected with some strange virus, an aural bug that coats all recordings in a faint background hiss that sounds like the chanting of...place-names? And what about the rumors that a correspondent has scored an interview with Torgu, here in New York, after all? As a very dark Old World atmosphere deepens in the halls of one of America's most trusted television programs, its employees are forced to confront a threat beyond their wildest imaginings, a threat that makes gossip about an impending corporate shakeup seem very quaint indeed. Written in the form of diary entries, e-mails, therapy journals, and other artifacts of early-twenty-first-century American professional-class life, compiled as an informal inquest by a very interested party, Fangland manages both to be a genuinely-in fact triumphantly-frightening vampire novel in the grand tradition and a, yes, biting commentary on the way we live and work now.

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  • "Fangland"

    (Reviewed by Sudheer Apte NOV 30, 2003) "PERSEPOLIS NICOPOIS CARTHAGO LUBYANKA NANKING CAJAMARCA CONSTANINOPLE LEPANTO MEDINA MASADA HIROSHIMA SHILOH... " ---Torgu's Poem of Place Names Fangland is one of those stories that starts with a normal, ordi ... (read full critics)

    mostlyfiction published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

  • Fangland By John Marks

    John Marks' third novel, Fangland, is no ordinary vampire tale. Evangeline Harker embarks on what might be the worst business trip ever. She's a producer for The Hour, a television news show, and is sent to Romania to investigate a story. She finds I ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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    Supposedly Hillary Swank will be starring in the film version of this novel. It's an updated retelling of Dracula as well as a social commentary on how we live today told in journals, emails, and other forms of communication. Somewhere between so-so and good. Change of narrators could have been s ... (continue)

    Supposedly Hillary Swank will be starring in the film version of this novel. It's an updated retelling of Dracula as well as a social commentary on how we live today told in journals, emails, and other forms of communication. Somewhere between so-so and good. Change of narrators could have been smoother. Interesting premise, but it was hard to want to finish.

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    Branflakez said on Aug 19, 2007 | Add your feedback

  • I just found a lot of things wrong with this book. Most of the story is told through E-mails of employees, and there really is no main character (or at least one I can call such). The thing I hate the most is the fact that the story jumps to another person the second one scene becomes intense. So yo ... (continue)

    I just found a lot of things wrong with this book. Most of the story is told through E-mails of employees, and there really is no main character (or at least one I can call such). The thing I hate the most is the fact that the story jumps to another person the second one scene becomes intense. So your left with nothing but disappointment and aggravation. I will definitely steer clear from this author in the future.

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    No Name said on Feb 2, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • This started out good but it didn't have a strong finish. It was a little hard to follow jumping from one person to the next...the flow wasn't great.

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    Amateur de Livre said on Sep 25, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 400 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 159420117X
  • ISBN-13: 9781594201172
  • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
  • Pub date: Jan 11, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback and Others
  • In other languages: other languages 繁體書
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